Storage usage in cPanel account is 30GB, dev/sda2 listed as 294GB

DC27

• June 08, 2020 16:09

Good day! I am confused about an issue I am having. My cPanel account is listed as 30GB, yet my dev/sda2 folder is at 294GB. I only have 20% of storage left on my 400GB SSD and would like to know what the causes could be. I am thinking that perhaps it has to do with the backups stored on the server? I am keeping 5 daily backups, 3 weekly and 3 monthly. This is probably an issue? Please note I am still new to the whole cPanel and WHM, so apologies if this is a "noob" question. Appreciate any advice on what could be causing the dev/sda2 folder to fill up so quickly.

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  dalem

  • June 08, 2020 22:33

  Your cpanel user account is separate from your server your OS/cpanel install is on your /dev/sda2 if you want to know what folder is using what on your server run this from cli du -sh /*

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  DC27

  • June 09, 2020 07:58

  Your cpanel user account is separate from your server your OS/cpanel install is on your /dev/sda2 if you want to know what folder is using what on your server run this from cli du -sh /*

  
  Thank you so much for your reply, appreciate it! I will be doing this and see, I just find it strange that the VPS fills up so quickly.

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  SamuelM

  • June 11, 2020 03:00

  Hello @DC27 It is certainly possible for your backups to be responsible for the majority of disk usage. I often find this to be the case. The default backup directory is /backup. If you have root access and are able to login to the server via SSH, you can find the size of the /backup directory and its subdirectories with the following command: du -sch /backup/*
  For a 400 GB disk, 20% of available space seems sufficient for most normal use cases. However, if you would like to automatically transfer your backups to a remote destination to save space on the local disk, you can configure that in the Additional Destinations section of the Backup Configuration page in WHM:

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  ZenHostingTravis

  • June 11, 2020 06:05

  You should transfer your backups to a remote destination. If you make incremental backups using cPanel or software such as JetBackup, you could potentially save using a lot of disk space. Something to think about.

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  DC27

  • June 13, 2020 11:38

  Hello @DC27 It is certainly possible for your backups to be responsible for the majority of disk usage. I often find this to be the case. The default backup directory is /backup. If you have root access and are able to login to the server via SSH, you can find the size of the /backup directory and its subdirectories with the following command: du -sch /backup/*
  

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  DC27

  • June 13, 2020 11:40

  You should transfer your backups to a remote destination. If you make incremental backups using cPanel or software such as JetBackup, you could potentially save using a lot of disk space. Something to think about.

  
  Hi ZenHostingTravis! Thanks for your feedback and suggestions! I have set up a remote FTP server where backups will be saved to using the additional destinations feature in WHM. Feeling a lot better now that my available storage space is back to 70%!

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  ZenHostingTravis

  • June 15, 2020 09:56

  Hi ZenHostingTravis! Thanks for your feedback and suggestions! I have set up a remote FTP server where backups will be saved to using the additional destinations feature in WHM. Feeling a lot better now that my available storage space is back to 70%!

  
  Glad to hear it. Thanks for updating us!

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